Puget Sound Energy reported 4,361 of their customers' addresses were without power since an outage began around 11am.
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Power lines on a power pole connected to the line had been sparking.
The outage began at about 10:40am in northeast Bellingham.
The outage extended across neighborhoods on D, E, F, G and H Streets.
Initial reports said electronic traffic signals were impacted in the area.
PSE said the outage was initially reported about 4am and impacted 1,353 of their customers' addresses.
About the same time, there was a report that a large sheet of plastic had blown into power lines causing sparking and arcing.
Over 13,000 reported without power throughout all of the Puget Sound area.
Sudden gusts of wind were reported along with heavy rains as the weather system swept past on an east-northeast path just before and after 7am.